h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

so I now have New Moon which is the second in the teenage vampire series.

oh my

I'm currently reading short stories by Roald Dahl

Porno

Irvine Welsh

I've not read a book since February. BUT, in preparation for exams finishing in less than a fortnight , I've bought another 7 of the Aubrey-Maturin books. Before I read them, I'll be splicing the mainbrace, so it's going to be at least a day or two after the exams finish.

Also bought 'The Dressing Station: a Surgeon's Odyssey', by Jonathan Kaplan, ' Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers How Agriculture Really Began' by Colin Tudge, and 'Why is Sex Fun?' by Jared Diamond. That should stop me getting a job for a week or so.

I must reccommend Porno

its a proper horror story

sick as hell

and Sick Boy has become some kind of pimp since Trainspotting

I read about half of it. It's definitely not nearly as good as Trainspotting*. Although might give it another bash during the summer.









*most books aren't though..

hopefully Manga counts so I can say Deathnote because I finished re-reading the hobbit...I'm hoping to re-re-re-re-re-read Lord of the rings...I read the whole thing in 2 days once ... I'll stop rambling now

That sounds like a bad stutter you've got there, Xarin.

Hi, Xarin
It's a pity it doesn't work this link.

htt://lambiek.net/home.htm
But if you like comics and want to read some classics ( I started to read quality comics at 17, which is your age now, it is not?) I recommend you to google it. It contains a lot of information about comic, current and classic ones.

My fav:

Milo Manara, italian, no one better at drawing the female body and turning on both females and males with his stories.
Crumb, american. Well... underground is the usual adjetive, but I would say: read it!
Gilbert Shelton: fuuuunnnnnyyyyyy, very very much

etc...
Look also for comic magazines: Pilote, Metal Hurlant, El Vibora...etc
oh! Corben, fantasy and divine drawings.

I hope, well I am SURE that you will enjoy them a lot.

Mar

just finished Full Moon (Stephenie Meyer) the 2nd of my teenage vampire high school dramas.

Now I want the next - I think they're more addictive than crack!

catch 22 is my alltime favorite book
but i'm reading "The Grapes Of Wrath" by john steinebeck

>>I'm now in the mood for some romance - preferably totally unrequited love.

Try one of Yukio Mishima's romantic novels. He alternated homoerotic sadomosochism with romance. This was before he disembowled himself and was beheaded by a young pal.

pedro:
>> I've bought another 7 of the Aubrey-Maturin books.

That's the ticket. I do hope you're scoring your fix from the fine emporia off Otago St and at the top of Byrses Rd, though. That's an expensive habit you've picked up. If it goes on this way, I can see you queing outside the chemists for your Hornblower replacement prescription.

'Why Sex Is Fun' - also good.

Good luck with the exams.

Doris Lessing's graphic novel, 'Playing The Game'.

Also...'Swedish in Three Months'.


(and holding an ongoing Books for Burma sale at work)

Yukio Mishima it is then, Ed. Thanks.

Blimey, though - there's a lot to choose from. Can you recommend a title?

Spring Snows. (Is that the title? It is.)

Or The Sound Of Waves. Or After The Banquet.

His homoerotic sadomasochism is also worth a read. Try Confessions of a Mask.

Also - movie recommendation:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/
(In the final scene, they do the Jaws Zoom-in-dolly-out trick)

Cheers Ed.

Done all my shopping online. There's no *way* I could afford the time off to wander about the West End. Might pop in next month though.

Pint?

an online pint?

I'd go for that.

I'm about to start The Time Traveller's Wife. Has everyone already read that? Any good?